Arts

Embark, Fashion and Jewellery, Trinidad and Tobago

Eastern elegance: Dhisha Moorjani’s House of Jaipur

For ten years, Trinidadian designer Dhisha Moorjani worked in the retail business, selling handicrafts and home décor from India. Then in...

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Music, History, Trinidad and Tobago

Invaders coming!

The story of Invaders Steel Orchestra One of the oldest steelbands in the world is BWIA Invaders. From their location on Tragarete Road in...

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Theatre and Dance, People, United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad’s Aida — Heather Headley

It was minutes before the curtain went up on the Broadway musical, Aida. Unless you count the three grapes and two strawberries she had...

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Literature

Butterfly Pirouette

At last, Auntie fainted. The cameraman’s face had turned green. Mrs Beech drank glasses of water in quick succession. She squirmed in the...

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Music, People, Barbados

John King: standing for something

You can trace John King’s progress by his hair. In 1982, when he appeared as the young “Johnny Ma Boy” in Barbados’s Crop Over...

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Embark, Fashion and Jewellery, Barbados

Bajan beauties: designers Shayla Cox and Kimberley Angoy

With “summer” right around the corner, now is the perfect time to hone your style for vacation days ahead. And designers Shayla Cox and...

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Embark, Literature, Reviews

Caribbean Bookshelf (May/June 2015)

Sounding Ground, by Vladimir Lucien (Peepal Tree Press, 73 pp, ISBN 9781845232399) The narrator in one of St Lucian Vladimir Lucien’s...

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Embark, Music, Reviews

Caribbean Playlist (May/June 2015)

Parallel Overtones — Garvin Blake Brooklyn-based steel pannist Garvin Blake at long last follows up his 1999 debut album Belle Eau Road...

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